The old internet reflected society a bit as well, despite being more closed off from the world and society was theoretically more uptight, the people were far more honest, far more genuine in their actions yet the moment social media and other grifts came to place, we have exactly what you describe Poonoo. Not only that, look at how the average Jon Q and Jane Smith act around you in the streets these days, age and creed don't matter, they have the same behaviour that's influenced by that kind of cancer and it leads them to be shitty in real life just because they are shitty online and surprisingly, the same thing vice versa. And that reflects in the content that is consumed and the content the people make on all those websites. Shallow, long, devoid of substance and any passion. Just the most sterile and seemingly attractive package that is meant to attract money.
Poonoo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:53 am
Newhalf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:16 am
That's why today's extremely sanitized internet is so strange to me.. It used to be the place to go to see extremes, so to say. Family friendly shit was TV.
Exactly, advertising ruined the internet and turned it into TV. When the tech nerds redesign how newer alt tech sites work they should all rely entirely on crowd funding and never rely on ads ever again.
Kugelfisch wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 1:47 am
Moe Bitches wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:29 am
Nobody gives a shit about the 2000's from what I hear.
It was a weird non-decade. The early years were just the 90s dying a slow death and then it turned into this awful, bland social media era that is still ongoing.
For all intents and purposes, you're experiencing the late 00s right now, just with continuously worse entertainment and more capable but also less exciting technology.
Yeah this, and that is why the internet prior to 2007 was so much better despite the shittier tech. It was pretty much late 90s internet with faster speeds for videos longer than 30 seconds rather than relying on flash animations to bypass the slow speeds. It was the wild west and the dotcom bubble initially scared too many people away from corporatising it until later.
It reminds me of that South Park episode with the "Internet Stars". They made a point that at the time the internet didn't have things set up where you could monetise being internet famous, a few years later that changed and the internet turned into the cancer it is today.
rabidtictac wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:41 pm
And everything was shared. The internet had a culture of sharing. Share music. Share movies. Share games. Share books. Share anything you want to share with anyone you want to share it with. The dark side of that is obviously the super illegal shit (such as cp), but was it really so bad for roms of old-ass bideo james to be available? What about music that was old a generation before the internet came along? Did VEVO really need a cut?
Even back then, you really had to be looking out for CP to get it. I mean how many of us used Limewire and Kazaa back in the day to dl some animus or the latest snes rom after ZSNES got its latest update? Heck, how many were dl-ing music as well and they would sometimes get a video that was, say, Lisa Sparxxx getting penetrated and creampied by 500 guys or whatever the latest porn movie circa 2003 was about.
And even then, you could tell something was off by looking at the file name and file size while dl-ing the thing in Limewire, only normies complained about that stuff because they were as tech iliterate back then as they are now. Heck, they might be far more tech illiterate now than compared to back then.
rabidtictac wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:41 pm
Old internet culture was all about putting what you have onto the internet to show to whoever wanted to see it. Whether that was entertainment, your opinion, your interests, whatever! No ads, no profit motive. Just people sharing things that were important to them. People were brought together and formed communities on websites like youtube based on nothing more than a common hobby they enjoyed sharing with others. That can theoretically still happen today, but the well has been poisoned in so many ways by advertising, shilling, political scheming and disingenuous fuckers.
That's a fucking pipe dream dude, give it up. The normalfags need a very large event to make them forget what's happening to the net now in order to reset their brains and try again from scratch. Whether that's a new kind of social interfacing, new tech that changes their perception, I don't know. But right now it's not gonna happen. Even the nip imageboards are poisoned as fuck.